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Rees won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1987. He was knighted in 1992 and won the Bruce MedalThe Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. See also Past laureates are: 1898 Simon Newcomb 1899 Arthur Auwers 1900 David Gill 1902 Giovanni V. in 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.. He was awarded the Henry Norris Russell LectureshipThe Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research. Russell Lecturers are: YearRecipient 1946 Henry Norris Russell 1947 Walter Sydney Adams 194 of the American Astronomical SocietyThe American Astronomical Society ( AAS) is a US society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The main aim of the AAS is provide a political voice for its members and organise their lobbying. The g in 2004.

In a career that has seen him publish over 500 research papers, he has made important contributions in the origin of cosmic microwave background radiation2001 The cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB is a form of electromagnetic radiation that fills the whole of the universe. It has the characteristics of black body radiation at a temperature of 2. It has a frequency in the microwave range. CMB and t, as well as galaxyThis article is about a celestial body. For alternate meanings see galaxy (disambiguation). Spiral Galaxy ESO 269-57 is about 150 million light-years away and 200,000 light-years across. Stars are almost always found in collections called galaxies togethe clustering and formation. His studies of the distribution of quasarA quasar (from quasi-stellar radio source is an astronomical object that looks like a star in optical telescopes (i. it is a point source), and has a very high redshift. The general consensus is that this high redshift is cosmological, the result of Hubbls proved a strong argument against the steady state theoryFor alternative meanings see steady state (disambiguation). The steady state theory is a model developed in 1949 by Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and others as an alternative to the Big Bang theory. Although the model had a large number of supporters among cosm, and he was one of the first to propose that enormous black holes power the quasars. He is also a well-respected and popular publicist of astronomy and science in general.